Sublime

tutelage

He held center stage through the 1850s; he had overshadowed them all—Silliman, Dana, Henry, Hall, Gray. The voice of Charles Darwin was still to be heard.

À Zurich, en 1922, il évoque déjà les rapports intellectuels franco-allemands. Lui dont la réputation politique tient en bonne partie à son analyse précoce de l’expansion germanique fait bientôt figure de champion de la réconciliation, sympathisant avec Stefan Zweig, Thomas Mann, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (qui voit en lui l’essence du Français) et

Like Humboldt before him, he took the greatest pride in the influence he had on the next generation of naturalists. And indeed the subsequent careers of his students and museum assistants are as strong a testament to his genius as almost anything else.

Das Stumme und Unbewegliche zum Reden und zum Bewegen zu bringen, vielleicht ist das der Lehrer in ihm gewesen,

Herder wrote that "A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world." To him such poetry had its greatest purity and power in nations before they became civilised, as shown in the Old Testament, the Edda, and Homer, and he tried to find such virtues in ancient

Nationalism made it easier to mobilize power and control large numbers of people. Nation-states formed by underlining and emphasizing characteristics that people held in common, particularly spoken language. This facilitated rule without the intervention of intermediaries. It simplified the tasks of bureaucracy. Edicts that need only be promulgated

It was because of Humboldt that I went on to read the stories of Delmore Schwartz, and fell in love with In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.